The Stalin Code V.2

A college student goes missing after a night of bar hopping.

Was the girl the victim of a kidnapping?

Perhaps it was a clandestine meeting gone horribly wrong.

Or did she simply walk away, of her own free will, disappearing into thin air?

Private investigator Sid Ericson is hired by the girl's father as his daughter's disappearance begins to slip through the cracks of the official investigation towards a cold case file.

Along the way, Ericson is run through a maze of conflicting clues and reluctant witnesses.

The private eye encounters:

Tattoos.

Urban legends.

A sunken Soviet submarine.

A white room with dark secrets.

And finally the code used by a mass murderer.

Legitimate clues paving the way towards eventually finding the young student?

Or are they instead, roadblocks put in place to prevent Sid Ericson from unraveling a multilayered mystery that originated decades ago.

One thing is obvious to the private eye.

Multilayered cases can be deadly.